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Cake day: June 27th, 2023
  • The 8-bit Intel 8051 family provides a dedicated bit-addressable memory space (addresses 20h-2Fh in internal RAM), giving 128 directly addressable bits. Used them for years. I’d imagine many microcontrollers have bit-width variables.

    bit myFlag = 0;

    Or even return from a function:

    bit isValidInput(unsigned char input) { // Returns true (1) if input is valid, false (0) otherwise return (input >= '0' && input <= '9'); }

  • I write embedded firmware for my own business’ products and I fall into this trap myself.

    I wanted to whip out a basic little product for my business thinking it would take two months of hardware design and a couple weeks of C.

    A year later it’s a neat little product…

  • Well, I don’t consider Sync to be overpriced. So clearly we aren’t going to agree on this. Not only did I buy Sync Ultra on both Reddit and Lemmy, for a time I further supported Ljdawson on Patreon.

    I spend up to an hour a day in Sync. So even amortized over only one year (and I used Sync on Reddit for many years) that’s 27 cents a day. Chump change.

    In addition, I view supporting the app devs as a boost to the Lemmy community. Isn’t app availability apps why many of us are here?

    Polished apps will grow the fediverse.

  • I’m an Sync Ultra user from Reddit and bought Sync Ultra again yesterday. No regrets.

    I don’t mind spending a few dollars on a program that I spend as much time with as I do Sync. I’ve never understood the psychology of people who believe anything more than a dollar for a phone app is too much.